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eldavojohn writes "Activision has announced new Call of Duty titles while fired Infinity Ward Developer leads Jason West and Vince Zampella sue them for the rights to the name. According to Activision, 'The company intends to expand the Call of Duty brand with the same focus seen in its Blizzard Entertainment business unit. This will include a focus on high-margin digital online content and further[ing] the brand as the leading action entertainment franchise in new geographies, new genres and with new digital business models.' Ars opines that Activision is set to over-saturate the market with tons of CoD titles similar to how it expertly brought down Guitar Hero."

As opposed to the newly announced Activision title, Call of Jewry-- telling the tale of two Polish Jews hardened by the camps who have escaped, and are now killing their way toward the Fuhrerbunker one. fucking. nazi. at a time. They're calling it a masterpiece of historical authenticity, and have already announced DLC where you can buy new single player maps, each with a prominent Third Reich figure as a boss, which you can horribly murder a la Rockstar's Manhunt games crossed with Bloodrayne.

One level is already generating controversy before it has even been released. Our steely antiheroes are caught in an SS Paranormal Division experiment and are flung back in time through an unstable portal. It is February 1904, days before the birth of Reinhard Heydrich-- the Butcher of Prague, and architect of the Final Solution. You are tasked with tracking down the pregnant mother before the temporal portal collapses and you are destroyed in the process. Will you kill the unborn child, kill the mother, or will you show the compassion that was not shown to you? What changes will your decision cause in Activision's dynamic gameplay system?